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...sanctioned campaign of violence that government officials describe as "justifiable terror." Every night members of a counterrevolutionary group of so-called white terrorists are slain in the streets. One day last week a young man lay dead on a sidewalk near the city's busy marketplace; to his chest was pinned a note warning citizens of the dangers of dissent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HORN OF AFRICA: Ethiopia Goes on the Attack | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side, and every time Bronson popped another mugger or bag-snatcher in the chest the audience gave him a standing ovation. Which is to say that "Death Wish" will cater to your basest instincts. But it's cathartic, you'll say, harmless, really. Tell me about it. "Liz," the slick soft-core porn feature playing downtown, has more socially redeeming features than this flick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swell Dames and Death Wishes | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Great American Treasure Hunt | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Radford Tanzer, 72, now a professor emeritus at Dartmouth Medical College. The basic principle is to use one or two pieces of cartilage, 4 to 5 in. (10 to 13 cm.) long, taken from the patient's own ribs. This causes no disability. While an assistant closes the chest wound, Brent carves and molds the cartilage into an approximation of the ultimate desired shape for the new ear. Then he makes a pocket from the skin where the ear should be and slips the cartilage into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ears Made New | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Part of August's act, lead singer of the Boo Hoo Band, includes sexually molesting an inflatable doll while wrapped in Saran Wrap, plunging a dagger into occupied tables in the club audience, and pouring hot wax on his bare chest...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

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